Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2006 September 27/Navy Squadron Dispute

The dispute
VT-10 and VT-86 pages were speedily deleted by an administrator. See the deletion log for VT-10 and VT-86. I have created requests for undeletion at Deletion review/Log/2006 September 27 and Deletion review/Log/2006 September 27, based on the claims of that they are from a government source.

Corroboration
Since other editors have found other sources for these texts that contain a copyright notice (see requests for aundeletion for details), but the original poster has provided citations with an uncopyrighted Navy source, I believe the best course of action is to query the Navy directly as to the status of these texts. Therefore I have submitted a request at with the following text:

The request
(Please do not edit this section; it should accurately reflect the request for information that sent to the Navy) An editor on wikipedia has attempted to create articles based on the text of these two webpages: https://www.cnatra.navy.mil/tw6/vt10/history.asp https://www.cnatra.navy.mil/tw6/vt86/history.asp

These articles have been deleted as a copyright violation, because they appear elsewhere on the internet with a copyright notice. However, it appears to me that this text may be a work of the US goverment (perhaps of the Naval Historical Center?).

The purpose of this communication is to identify the copyright status of the above-linked texts. In particular, I am interested in answers to the following two questions: 1) Are these texts work of the US government, a government contractor, or a third party? 2) Are these texts part of the public domain?

Your speedy response to this query is highly appreciated. You may respond by e-mail to the address above, or by posting directly or the Wikipedia dicussion page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2006_September_27#VT-10 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2006_September_27#VT-86